Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never fulfilled the promise of Schlesinger's Darling. Jon Voight has not come near his performance in Midnight Cowboy. Finch and Jackson will find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to equal their Sunday roles. The low Schlesinger is a pirouetting dandy who can take a lean, melancholy story and muck it about. Thus he filled Midnight Cowboy with baroque ornaments and fussy camerawork. Thus he films Sunday Bloody Sunday with the same extraneous decorations. Faces are continually shot in reflection, or through objects; juxtapositions are sophomoric -the camera pans down from a poverty poster to a refrigerator brimming with food...
...continental shelf-in some places 100 miles offshore. The bill poses some complex problems. It may cost sludge-barge operators more than $50 million a year for oceangoing tugs and crews. It will not stop New York City and Philadelphia from continuing to dump their own muck into New Jersey waters. Nor will Cahill's suggested limit help the Atlantic, which is already partially polluted. Still, his move is likely to end a grim impasse and even clean up some filthy beaches. As he put it: "We must realize that we can no longer throw our wastes away because...
...Harvard golfers may get a chance to play in some real muck this afternoon, as they face a couple of patsies- M.I.T. and Trinity-in the final match of the season...
...receive a "Golden Fox" trophy. It is named for the famous "Fox" of Kane County, Ill. (TIME, Oct. 5), an anonymous ecoguerrilla who has conducted a colorful battle against polluters by blocking factory smokestacks and sewers and sloshing a corporate office with smelly piles of fish and river muck...
...zesty raids near Chicago last fall, an environmental guerrilla dubbed "the Fox" enraged polluters and entranced citizens by stopping up factory chimneys, plugging sewers and sloshing corporate offices with smelly river muck (TIME, Oct. 5). Still uncaught, the Fox recently gained an equally anonymous ally: "The Billboard Bandit," a single-minded commando devoted to beautifying the roadside near Monroe, Mich...